cfp - postcolonialhttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/category/postcolonial
enFiguring Modernism- 2020MLAhttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/14/figuring-modernism-2020mla
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 2:22pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Judith Paltin / University of British Columbia</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:judith.paltin@ubc.ca">judith.paltin@ubc.ca</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/gender-studies-and-sexuality">gender studies and sexuality</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/modernist-studies">modernist studies</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world-literatures-and-indigenous-studies">world literatures and indigenous studies</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 26, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>CFP MLA 2020 : Figuring Modernism<br />The 20th-century revolutionary aesthetic Figure in relation to its materialisms and politics, its cross and intermedia, its global travels and cultural histories, the effects of Modernism’s crisis of figuration on being human. Please send a 1-page abstract by March 26 to Judith Paltin, University of British Columbia, at <a href="mailto:judith.paltin@ubc.ca">judith.paltin@ubc.ca</a>. Also see <a href="https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Paper8974.html">https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Paper8974.html</a>.</p>
<p>(Note to moderator: this is my academic institutional email. In Canada we don't use .edu addresses). Short bio of person making the request: I am an assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. My current research focuses on the crowds of British and Irish modernism and on modern and contemporary theories of collective identification and action. I also hold more general interests in critical and cultural theory, critical studies in sexuality, literature and mind, literature and environment, and critical university studies.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:11:56 +0000judith.paltin@ubc.ca79817 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduLANGUAGE IN THE FRANCOPHONE SPACEhttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/11/language-in-the-francophone-space
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 10:37am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">SAMLA 91 - Nov 8-10 2019</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:gcristiani@tulane.edu">gcristiani@tulane.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/eighteenth-century">eighteenth century</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/popular-culture">popular culture</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April 30, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Language is a crucial aspect of the Francophone world, on the threshold between French and Creole, or other indigenous languages. The decision to write in a certain language can be simply dictated by the author’s feelings, or it can become a true political statement. As well, choosing one does not always mean that the other will remain silent: whether such process is carefully crafted, or on the contrary happens on a subconscious level, languages influence one another, and such influx tend to surface in poems, novels, songs, and other forms of expression.</p>
<p>This panel proposes to analyze the relationship between the Francophone author and the language he/she uses, how the language shapes identity and vice versa, how the message of literature and other forms of expression is vehiculated through the use of a certain language, and how the production of multilingual spaces such as the Francophone countries is conceived. We welcome proposals dealing with Francophone, Creolophone, and other literatures and arts produced in the Caribbean, Africa, Canada, Louisiana, French Polynesia, and other regions directly influenced by France and the French language. </p>
<p>Topics include, but are not limited to:</p>
<ul><li>Language and Francophone literature</li>
<li>Language and identity</li>
<li>Language and politics</li>
<li>Language and minorities</li>
<li>Representations of indigenous languages in France or other French-speaking countries</li>
<li>Relationship between French and Creole</li>
<li>Language and art in Francophone countries</li>
<li>Language and Francophone music</li>
<li>Creole influence in literature</li>
<li>Language and Colonialism/Postcolonialism</li>
<li>Creole and indigenous languages in the society</li>
</ul><p>Please send a 200-word abstract in English or French to Giorgia Cristiani, Tulane University, <a href="mailto:gcristiani@tulane.edu">gcristiani@tulane.edu</a>, by April 30, 2019 along with presenter's academic affiliation, contact information, as well as a short biography and A/V requirements.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:47:03 +0000gcristiani@tulane.edu79788 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduAgenda: Special Issue on Southern Feminismshttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/11/agenda-special-issue-on-southern-feminisms
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 10:14am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Agenda</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:zimma@tulane.edu">zimma@tulane.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/gender-studies-and-sexuality">gender studies and sexuality</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/journals-and-collections-of-essays">journals and collections of essays</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 18, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/3821992" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination%3Dnode/3821992&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1552399772628000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFC51Va1hIJkz0bZlVWjy5MgdqIjA">CFP: Agenda Special Issue on Southern Feminisms</a>by Z'étoile Imma
</p><p>Please submit abstracts to <a href="mailto:louhaysom@mweb.co.za" target="_blank">louhaysom@mweb.co.za</a> or <a href="mailto:admin@agenda.org.za" target="_blank">admin@agenda.org.za</a>. <strong>No later than 18 March 2019.</strong></p>
<p><strong>See more info: <a href="http://www.agenda.org.za/call-for-abstracts-southern-feminisms" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.agenda.org.za/call-for-abstracts-southern-feminisms&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1552399772628000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHLHcenzuKrpYbDA00ReSt7C6NKPA">http://www.agenda.org.za/call-for-abstracts-southern-feminisms</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>ABOUT AGENDA</strong><br />Agenda has been at the forefront of feminist publishing in South Africa for the past 30 years and raises debate around women’s rights and gender issues. The journal is designed to promote critical thinking and debate and aims to strengthen the capacity of both men and women to challenge gender discrimination and injustice. The Agenda journal is an IBSS/SAPSE accredited and peer-reviewed journal.</p>
<p><strong>GUEST EDITORS:</strong> Prof. Deirdre Byrne and Dr. Z’étoile Imma</p>
<p><strong>Conceptual Rationale:</strong><br />Gender politics in the twenty-first century have been marked by a proliferation of descriptives that precede the word feminism– neoliberal feminism, intersectional feminism, consumerist feminism, imperial feminism, trans*feminisms, digital feminisms, etc.</p>
<p>The call to qualify yet another may not be a feminist priority, however, as the fracturing of feminisms continues (as this list makes evident), this special issue is an attempt to recalibrate our attention to the feminist theorizing and praxis emerging from and centering the South.</p>
<p>While Southern Feminisms may be a straightforward synonym for feminisms of the Global South, locating the South is not a practice of mere geography. The terminology of the Global South is itself predicated on debates around history, power, borders, centers, and peripheries. The where and who of the Global South as it relates to feminism needs further study.</p>
<p>Indeed, for this special issue, we are invested in exploring the sites where the traditional mapping of the North/South axis might be complicated by transnational flows of activism and knowledge. Such flows might include the lives and work of feminists working in poor Black communities in Alabama; Sudanese migrant women demanding full inclusion in Sydney; lesbian and trans activists in South Africa drawing on the demands of “Black Lives Matter” for their movements; and intersectional gender activists in the US learning from the #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements in South African higher education. If the Global South as a term indeed describes the “spaces and peoples negatively impacted by contemporary capitalist globalization” (Mahler 2018), how might thinking through the capacious possibilities within Southern Feminisms lead us to differently conceptualize the shifting locations of gendered violence, precarity, and vulnerability?</p>
<p>On the other hand, definitional debates should not obscure how the local in the global South matters materially and ideologically for many women and gender non-conforming people in the postcolonial contemporary. Drawing from their postcolonial standpoints, feminist critics and gender studies stalwarts from Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyèwùmí to Chandra Talpade Mohanty, have warned us of the dangers of generalizing gender as a category across space and time.</p>
<p>Given the sharpest edge of their interventions pointed towards white feminist saviour-scholars who engaged in a consistent erasure of Black and brown women’s embodied experiences, intellectual production, and radical feminist activism, we agree that a feminist “theorizing from the south requires both a divestment from the usual business of intellectual extraction that positions the global South as source of unprocessed data or ethnographic case study”(Piedalue and Rishi 2017). However, Mohanty, Oyèwùmí, Zine Magubane, Violet E. Barriteau, Pumla D. Gqola, and Mrinalini Chakravorty (for example), have demonstrated the ways in which feminists of colour can also reify single stories of women’s oppression. This leads to muzzling the particular and complex shapes of marginalization experienced – and resistance expounded – by different social formations of women and gender-nonconforming folk.</p>
<p>Furthermore, with the mainstreaming of women’s issues, intersectionality, and transnational feminism as a discourse in the South and North, how might we better redistribute our feminist resources, moving away from a primary focus on the digital savvy stories of highly exceptional and/or respectable women of colour toward a more inclusive analysis of Southern “everyday” feminists?</p>
<p>If the specificities of the caste/gender matrix as a force of domination in the lives of poor Dalit women and gender-nonconforming people in India, for example, do not travel with the same facility as the #metoo movement in India’s film industry does, how do we engage in practices that build sustainable connections beyond superficial and short-term performances of care? Which Southern-centered feminist theories, imaginaries, and visions for a liberated future will inspire and inform us as we do this difficult work?</p>
<p>Southern feminisms in conversation across and within national borders need to be theorized within an intersectional analysis of how class, race, caste, gender/sexual identity, and location shape the stakes of our scholarship and attempts at coalition. African feminisms are, despite ongoing marginalization from the North, well poised to offer readings of the limits and possibilities of solidarity as a Southern feminist praxis, given the historically transnational contours and continental expanse of feminist epistemologies from Africa.</p>
<p>No other feminist project has been as intentionally and self-reflectively transnational as African feminisms. Across the Atlantic, Latin American and Caribbean, feminist activist-scholars have fostered intraregional dialogue and survived ideological fissures in a series of conferences, Encuentros Feministas Latinoamericanas y del Caribe, that have continued to generate productive transborder feminist networks for over forty years (Alvarez et al 2003). Despite these contributions, editors of the recent Feminist Theory special issue on Southern feminisms, Raewyn Connell and Celia Roberts, argue that the global knowledge economy continues to privilege of Northern feminist theory. In fact, there is a long and august history of feminist thought and activism in the Global South that is simply not recognized in the global North and West. The colonial hegemonies which undergird academic Eurocentric feminism have been profoundly deconstructed and challenged by scholars from the South. Thus, we propose that Southern feminisms can benefit from a critical turn away from a Northern orientation, by analyzing African feminist contributions to Southern feminist thinking, as well as examining the impacts and legacies of Third World feminist movements, which several decades ago championed forms of radical anti-militarist and anti-capitalist South-to-South alliances that are pertinent in the context of state capture, carceral cultures, war economies, and climate imperialism today.</p>
<p>In seeking Southern feminist practitioners, we might turn with heavy hearts to feminist Marielle Franco, whose murder last year inspired an outpouring of rage and grief in Southern feminist communities.</p>
<p>Mourning Franco gave voice to long-standing, and catalyzed newly emergent, South-to South and global Black feminist solidarities. Franco’s intersectional-driven feminist activism for the rights of poor, marginalized, and non-normative communities in Brazil served as a reflection for the work many Southern feminists have been charged with for decades, while her murder served a grim reminder of the dangers of feminist work in many of our Southern homelands. Our collective grief for Franco was increasingly echoed throughout the Global South as the list of trans people, feminists, and woman human rights defenders of colour who were either murdered or have disappeared, tragically precedes and follows her burial. Facing the stark reality of multi-pronged violence against us while drawing strength from our feminist ancestors, the project of building the efficacy and archiving the legacy of Southern feminisms becomes a political imperative.</p>
<p>For this special issue of Agenda, the editors posit that there are as many feminisms in the Global South as there are contexts.</p>
<p>We welcome abstracts on any of the following topics:</p>
<p>● How might Third World feminists organizations, coalitions, collaborations, and failed solidarities of late twentieth century inform contemporary Southern feminist thought and practices?<br />● How do migrations, diasporas, borders, and incarceral states shape Southern feminist theory and praxis?<br />● How do the politics of difference, race, and anti-Blackness complicate Southern feminist solidarities?<br />● What is the relationship between global LBGTI rights movements and Southern feminisms?<br />● How have girls, girl-centered activism, girlhood studies contributed to Southern feminist futurities?<br />● What intergenerational tensions and fissures mark Southern feminisms?<br />● How has celebrity mobilised the mainstreaming of Southern feminisms?<br />● What emergent digital venues serve as a tool and site for Southern feminisms?<br />● How do Southern feminist navigate an increasingly NGO-driven and often Northern-funded civil society?<br />● How is affect –grief, rage, joy, and/or desire – a productive tool for building Southern feminisms?<br />● How do Southern feminisms articulate and draw from indigenous epistemologies and knowledge technologies?<br />● How do Southern feminisms attempt to decolonise the Southern (and Northern) academy?<br />● How do popular discourses of healing, self-care, choice, and pleasure impact and/or produce (new) Southern feminist activism?<br />● In what ways is environmental injustice, climate imperialism, and disaster capitalism propelling and catalyzing Southern feminisms?<br />● How do feminisms in and of the South differ from, and overlap with, feminisms in the North and West?</p>
<p>References:</p>
<p>Alvarez, Sonia E., et al. “Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms.” Signs, vol. 28, no. 2, 2003, 537–579.<br />Barriteau, Violet Eudine. “Issues and Challenges of Caribbean Feminisms.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, no. 58, 2003, 37–44.<br />Chakravorty, Mrinalini. In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.<br />Roberts, Celia, and Raewyn Connell. “Feminist Theory and the Global South.” Feminist Theory, vol. 17, no. 2, Aug. 2016, 135–140.<br />Gqola Pumla Dineo. “How the ‘Cult of Femininity’ and Violent Masculinities Support Endemic Gender Based<br />Violence in Contemporary South Africa.” African Identities, 5:1, 2007,111-124.<br />Magubane, Zine. “Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semenya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory.” Signs, vol. 39, no. 3, 2014, 761–785.<br />Mahler, Anne Garland. “Global South.” Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, ed. Eugene O&amp;#39;Brien. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.<br />Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Boundary 2, 12/13, 1984, 333–358.<br />Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónké. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.<br />Piedalue, Amy and Susmita Rishi. “Unsettling the South through Postcolonial Feminist Theory.” Feminist Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, 2017, 548–570.</p>
<p>Contributors are invited to submit manuscripts on the above topic from the point of view either of researchers or activists. Abstracts and contributions must be written in English and in a style accessible to a wide audience. Please submit abstracts to <a href="mailto:louhaysom@mweb.co.za" target="_blank">louhaysom@mweb.co.za</a> or <a href="mailto:admin@agenda.org.za" target="_blank">admin@agenda.org.za</a>.</p>
<p><strong>No later than 18 March 2019</strong></p>
<p><strong>ABOUT AGENDA</strong><br />Agenda has been at the forefront of feminist publishing in South Africa for the past 30 years and raises debate around women’s rights and gender issues. The journal is designed to promote critical thinking and debate and aims to strengthen the capacity of both men and women to challenge gender discrimination and injustice. The Agenda journal is an IBSS/SAPSE accredited and peer-reviewed journal.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:12:14 +0000zimma@tulane.edu79780 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduMigrant States of Exceptionhttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/11/migrant-states-of-exception
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Monday, March 18, 2019 - 4:45pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Birgit Spengler, University of Wuppertal</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:bspengler@uni-wuppertal.de">bspengler@uni-wuppertal.de</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/ethnicity-and-national-identity">ethnicity and national identity</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/international-conferences">international conferences</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 30, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>CFP Symposium: Migrant States of Exception</strong></p>
<p><strong>November 14-16, 2019, University of Wuppertal, Germany</strong></p>
<p><strong>Deadline for Proposals: March 30, 2019</strong></p>
<p> Migrant states of exception proliferate and intensify across the world. While processes of globalization have fostered movement and enhanced connectivity on a hitherto unprecedented scale, they have also brought the highly uneven distribution of elected and enforced mobility to the fore. Such physical and virtual forms of mobility are at the center of processes of de- and re-territorialization and engender complex re-workings of cultural, social, economic, and political spaces that do not align with the traditional borders of nation-states. Even though the Westphalian world order has by no means been replaced, the sovereignty of nation-states has become increasingly traversed by processes and forces that cannot be (fully) controlled by state governments – for example the new "territorialit[ies]" that are produced by "global capitalism" and non-governmental organizations (Ong). At the same time, sovereignty, too, has become more diffuse and dispersed – often exerting influence far beyond the confines of its supposed territorial limits – causing states to engage in more and more intricate and diversified "sovereignty games" (Parker &amp; Adler Nissen).</p>
<p>Even though national boundaries have traditionally been sites where the territoriality of law has been foregrounded, the multidimensionality and diversification of national borders (cf. Parker and Adler-Nissen), their "diffusion and stratification" through "processes of <em>border externalisation</em> and <em>internalization</em>" (Brambilla; cf. also Fassin) show that, along with sovereignty, "border practices" have long moved beyond the actual "line." Therefore, Agambian forms of “inclusive exclusion,” "bare life," and “states of exception,” have also been dispersed. At the same time, migrants have developed multiple "tactics" (de Certeau) to navigate and shape spaces of sovereignty in manifold ways.</p>
<p>The symposium seeks to explore articulations of <em>migrant states of exception</em> in the triad of borders, migration, and sovereignty. We are particularly interested in the multiple, complex and varied ways in which migrants negotiate borders, boundaries, and sovereignty. These negotiations are gendered and racialized, material and embodied as well as imagined. Our symposium aims to open up a space for interdisciplinary dialogues that involve disciplines such as literary, cultural, and media studies, anthropology and human geography, as well as legal, sociological, political, historical, and philosophical perspectives on migrant states of exception.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Topics may include but are not limited to . . .</p>
<ul><li>the political, legal, and economic dimensions of processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization, the states of exception created through them, and their implications and consequences</li>
<li>the diffusion, diversification, and stratification of borders and their effects</li>
<li>"sovereignty games" and border practices, including systems of deportation and detention</li>
<li>the "geopolitics of mobility" and "geographies of exception"</li>
<li>migrant tactics to negotiate borders, sovereignty, and states of exception</li>
<li>philosophical approaches to states of exception and sovereignty</li>
<li>attempts to reconceptualize the territoriality of law</li>
<li>border imaginaries as offered in different literary genres and media that address migrant states of exception and/or offer new ways of imagining community and belonging</li>
<li>the sonic and/or visual dimensions of borderscapes, migration, and states of exception</li>
<li>metaphors of (im)mobility and migration such as borders, fences, butterflies, …</li>
<li>visual and/or literary representations of migration/the negotiating of borders</li>
<li> specific/local articulations of migrant spaces of exception</li>
<li> (local) initiatives to give expression to migrant states of exception and to create sites of communication, negotiation, and exchange</li>
</ul><p> </p>
<p><strong>Confirmed Keynote Speakers:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Chiara Brambilla</strong>, Research Fellow in Anthropology and Geography, University of Bergamo and Adjunct Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Milano</p>
<p><strong>Alicia Schmidt Camacho</strong>, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University</p>
<p><strong>Thomas Spijkerboer</strong>, Professor of Migration Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Professor of Human Rights &amp; Humanitarian Law, Lund University</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Proposals </strong></p>
<p>Please send abstracts of 300 to 400 words for ca. 20-minute papers in English and a short bio-bibliographical note of ca. 100 words to Birgit Spengler (<a href="mailto:bspengler@uni-wuppertal.de">bspengler@uni-wuppertal.de</a>), Sylvia Mieszkowski (<a href="mailto:sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at">sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at</a>), and Mekonnen Tesfahuney (<a href="mailto:mekonnen.tesfahuney@kau.se">mekonnen.tesfahuney@kau.se</a>) by <strong>March 30, 2019</strong>.</p>
<p>There will be a conference fee of 50 Euros/30 Euros for PhD students.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Please visit the conference website: <a href="https://migrantstatesofexception.wordpress.com/">https://migrantstatesofexception.wordpress.com/</a></p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:19:44 +0000bspengler@uni-wuppertal.de79775 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduThe Other #MeTooshttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/10/the-other-metoos
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 2:26pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">University of North Texas</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:IqraSCheema@gmail.com">IqraSCheema@gmail.com</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ethnicity-and-national-identity">ethnicity and national identity</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/gender-studies-and-sexuality">gender studies and sexuality</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world-literatures-and-indigenous-studies">world literatures and indigenous studies</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 20, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Seeking proposals for MLA 2020 convention: Proposal should investigate questions like what does #MeToo mean in non-Western countries? What does/can #MeToo do for non-Western women? How does #MeToo affect non-Western feminisms? How deos #MeToo translate into non-Western feminisms and cultures? What is #MeToo's place in postcolonial feminism? How can we encourage and engage with inclusive feminisms in the contemporary times? How does #MeToo co-exist with other geographical and religio-political beliefs?</p>
<p>Overall, I seek to discuss #MeToo in non-white and/or non-Western demographics and geographies. </p>
<p>Please <strong>submit 300 words long proposals,</strong> <strong>with a brief bio</strong> at <strong><a href="mailto:IqraSCheema@gmail.com">IqraSCheema@gmail.com</a></strong> <strong>by 20th March 2019. </strong></p>
<p>Feel free to ask any questions at the same email address too. </p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 22:18:16 +0000IqraShagufta@my.unt.edu79772 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduMLA 2020-Humanitarian Violence and the Ethics of Witnessinghttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/08/mla-2020-humanitarian-violence-and-the-ethics-of-witnessing
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 10:15pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Bryant Scott, University of Miami</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:bls39@miami.edu">bls39@miami.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/ethnicity-and-national-identity">ethnicity and national identity</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world-literatures-and-indigenous-studies">world literatures and indigenous studies</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 28, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Seeking paper abstracts for the MLA Annual Convention in Seattle, WA, January 9-12, 2020.</p>
<p>After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Western nations began to outline foreign policy by drawing explicitly on a language of human rights that promised to be untainted by geopolitical ambition. So pervasive did this human rights ethic become that critics Kay Schafer and Sidonie Smith refer to the 1990s as the “decade of human rights.” While many see hope in such a “humanitarian turn,” scholars such as Noam Chomsky, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Yen Le Espiritu, and Neda Atanasoski argue that human rights and the humanitarian discourses surrounding terms like “freedom,” “refuge,” and even “diversity” have perpetuated state violence in the post-Cold War era. As these and other scholars suggest, after anti-communism lost its value as justification for occupying the world’s more vulnerable nations, Western states began to authorize military aggression on humanitarian grounds.</p>
<p>This panel, which revisits some of the issues and themes of a special sessions panel organized for MLA 2019, invites papers that investigate how literature, broadly conceived, responds to and participates in debates about humanitarianism and human rights discourses and the violence they may or may not perpetuate. Paper proposals might address:</p>
<ul><li>Human rights and literary forms</li>
<li>Citizenship and statelessness</li>
<li>Migration and the refugee</li>
<li>The ontology of the human rights/humanitarian subject</li>
<li>Politics of human rights before, during, and/or after the Cold War</li>
<li>Human rights and theories of the state</li>
<li>Human rights and liberalism and/or neoliberalism</li>
<li>Race and human rights</li>
<li>Temporalities of human rights</li>
<li>Geographies of human rights and humanitarianism</li>
<li>The ethics of witnessing in the era of Trump</li>
<li>Reimagining human rights</li>
<li>Radical alternatives to human rights</li>
<li>Human rights and the Humanities scholar</li>
</ul><p>Please send 300-word abstracts and a short bio to Bryant Scott at <a href="mailto:bls39@miami.edu">bls39@miami.edu</a> by March 25, 2019. </p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:30:12 +0000bls39@miami.edu79768 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduComparative Perspectives on the Robinsonade, 1719-2019http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/08/comparative-perspectives-on-the-robinsonade-1719-2019
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 10:13am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:patrick.gill@uni-mainz.de">patrick.gill@uni-mainz.de</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/eighteenth-century">eighteenth century</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/film-and-television">film and television</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world-literatures-and-indigenous-studies">world literatures and indigenous studies</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p align="center">12 July 2019</p>
<p align="center">Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz</p>
<p align="center">Winfried Eckel (Mainz)</p>
<p align="center">Jakub Lipski (Bydgoszcz)</p>
<p align="center">Anja Müller-Wood (Mainz)</p>
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<p> </p>
<p>The 2019 tercentenary of the publication of Daniel Defoe’s <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> provides the perfect opportunity to reconsider the global status of the Robinsonade as a genre. Its translations, transformations, and a gradual separation from the founding text by Daniel Defoe , have revealed its truly international character, with the term ‘Robinsonade’ itself first used in the German literary tradition and the most enduring narrative structure established not so much by Defoe himself but by J.J. Rousseau and his commentary on <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> in <em>Emile; or, On Education</em>.</p>
<p>This symposium will address the circulation of the Robinsonade across cultures and national contexts, the adaptability of the form and its potential to speak to various audiences at different historical moments. The organisers invite contributions on all aspects of the afterlives of the Robinsonade across languages, cultures, and media, with a particular interest in contemporary variations on the theme. While prospective participants are invited to speak about Robinsonades in any linguistic, cultural, or national context, please note that the conference language is English.</p>
<p>Please send suggestions for presentations to <a href="mailto:patrick.gill@uni-mainz.de">patrick.gill@uni-mainz.de</a> by 15 March. Abstracts should extend to no more than 250 words and be accompanied by a brief biographical note.</p>
<p>The editors of <em>Comparisons: A Journal on Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies</em> have expressed an interest in publishing articles based on selected conference papers as a thematic cluster commemorating the <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> tercentenary.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:25:30 +0000patrick.gill@uni-mainz.de79760 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduRewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literaturehttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/08/rewriting-war-and-peace-in-the-twentieth-and-twenty-first-centuries-contemporary
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 10:51am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:rewritingwar2020@gmail.com">rewritingwar2020@gmail.com</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ethnicity-and-national-identity">ethnicity and national identity</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/international-conferences">international conferences</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">September 1, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> <strong>Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries:</strong><strong>Contemporary British and American Literature</strong> The research group “Rewriting War: The Paradigms of Contemporary War Fiction in English” is pleased to announce its first conference, “Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature”, to be held at the <strong>Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from Thursday 02 April to Friday 03 April 2020</strong>. The major wars and conflicts of recent times (the two world wars, the Holocaust, the Spanish Civil war, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, the Falkland Islands War, the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War, among others) have affected the lives and writings of second-and third-generation witnesses in contexts widely separated from the wars themselves. The conference aims to explore whether contemporary literature can effectively establish adequate representational spaces for approaching and reconsidering these past wars. Bearing in mind the need to approach the experience of war with extreme caution to avoid either the anxiety involved in the representation of conflict or the comforting reassurance of relying on “grand (war) narratives,” our conference will critically reconsider both the issue of “authenticity” in the use of historical sources and the need to access and interpret the past from contemporary settings. We aim to shed light on the ethical dimensions of war writing and on the possibilities of closure, resolution or consolation in contemporary British and American literature, and to assess whether literature can be of use in the politics of peace-making and conflict resolution, contributing to the formation of fairer, more egalitarian societies.The keynote lectures will be given by:
</p><ul><li><strong>Professor Jay Winter</strong> (Yale University): “Silences of the Great War: All the things we cannot hear”</li>
<li><strong>Professor Kate McLoughlin</strong> (Oxford University): “Mesopotamia: Writing the Wars in Iraq?”</li>
<li><strong>The novelist Rachel Seiffert</strong>: “Why do we write about war?”</li>
</ul><p> We invite scholars of all career stages and representing various academic disciplines, including literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, memory studies, peace studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, and other. Three forms of presentation are encouraged: 20-minute conference papers, 60-minute roundtables consisting of 3-4 speakers (for which we will post instructions on our website) and 5-minute pecha kucha—lightning talks—for postgraduate participants to highlight their research. Topics will be grouped around two main areas: (a) post-memory and (b) aesthetic articulations of war. The first is defined by attempts to recapture the immediacy of traumatic events that are not personally experienced but, instead, are socially apprehended through imaginative creativity; and the second severs links from the event’s participants or witnesses, though often imagining proxy figures to transmit authentification. Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:
</p><ul><li>The Narration of War: Representational anxieties. Grey Areas: Authentic vs. fake narratives; literature vs history. From Modern to Postmodern Wars. The Narrative Quality of Historical Facts: Historiographic metafiction.</li>
<li>Gender and War: Destabilization of gender relations by war. Gender Opposition to War. Gender and the Impact of War. Gender Inequalities.</li>
<li>The Aftermath of War: Demobilisation and social integration. Memory, Memorialization and Reconciliation. The Healing Power of Nostalgia. Post-traumatic Testimonies of Conflict.</li>
<li>Representation of “Home” in the Aftermath of War. Haunted Spaces and Places. Gendered Spaces: Tension between domestic sphere and public arena.</li>
<li>Post-memory: “Familial” and “affiliative” aspects. Official vs. Unofficial “War-After Writings.” Post-memory and Representational Anxieties.</li>
<li>New Definitions of War and Peace. Conflict Transformation: If warfare is an extension of politics, is politics then an extension of warfare? Have civil liberties in peacetime been reduced as if we were at war? </li>
</ul><p> Conference paper, roundtable and pecha kucha proposals should be no longer than 300 words in length and be accompanied by a short bio-note. Contributions will be peer evaluated, according to the significance of the topic, the importance of the contribution, and originality. Selected full manuscripts will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by the research group after the event. <strong>Please submit proposals, indicating type of presentation, to <a href="mailto:rewritingwar2020@gmail.com">rewritingwar2020@gmail.com</a> by Sunday 01 September 2019.</strong> Although the working language of the conference is English, we welcome discussion of issues outside the English-speaking world. <strong>Conference website</strong>: <a href="http://blogs.uab.cat/rewritingwar/2020-conference">http://blogs.uab.cat/rewritingwar/2020-conference</a> </p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:34:29 +0000rewritingwar2020@gmail.com79756 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduGender and Race in Twentieth-Century Literature (regular session)http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/05/gender-and-race-in-twentieth-century-literature-regular-session
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 9:12am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:rcostello@mcneese.edu">rcostello@mcneese.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ethnicity-and-national-identity">ethnicity and national identity</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/gender-studies-and-sexuality">gender studies and sexuality</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world-literatures-and-indigenous-studies">world literatures and indigenous studies</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 31, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Gender and Race in Twentieth-Century Literature (regular session), SCMLA, Little Rock, Arkansas (24-26 October 2019)—submit abstracts by March 31</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p>South Central Modern Language Association</p>
<p>76th Annual Conference</p>
<p>Little Rock Marriott</p>
<p>October 24-26, 2019</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>GENDER AND RACE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE</strong></p>
<p>This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to gender and race in literature—including practical, theoretical, cultural and pedagogical approaches as well as literary analysis. We are open to international and multi-lingual literatures or issues of translation, although presentations should be delivered in English.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Topics are not required to address the conference theme, but we are especially interested in abstracts related to the 2019 conference theme, “Pathways: Past, Present and Future” (see more below).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Please submit abstracts (including paper title, contact information, and university affiliation) by March 31, 2019 to the Session Chair: Rita D. Costello at &lt;<a href="mailto:rcostello@mcnesse.edu">rcostello@mcnesse.edu</a>&gt;.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Membership in SCMLA is required upon acceptance. SCMLA offers a sliding scale for membership (more information is available at <a href="http://www.southcentralmla.org/membership/">www.southcentralmla.org/membership/</a>). Graduate student submissions are welcome.</p>
<p> </p>
<hr /><p> </p>
<p><strong>Conference Theme: “Pathways: Past, Present and Future”</strong></p>
<p>The theme takes its cue from Arkansas’s natural beauty, rich history, and diverse culture. Drawing on the spirit of the Arkansas Traveler and paying homage to the Little Rock Nine, this theme encourages us to think about how persistence, bravery, and the pursuit of the unknown have helped to shape the past and our understandings of it; as well as how we in the humanities might need to draw on these qualities in the present in order to maintain hope in the future. We anticipate a wide range of exciting research connected to this topic to be presented at these meeting. As always, papers on other topics are also welcome.</p>
<p> </p>
<hr /><p> </p>
<p><strong>Gender and Race in Twentieth-Century Literature (Regular Session)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Chair:</strong> Rita D. Costello, McNeese State University &lt;<a href="mailto:rcostello@mcnesse.edu">rcostello@mcnesse.edu</a>&gt;</p>
<p><strong>Secretary:</strong> Silvia Morin, University of Tennessee at Martin &lt; <a href="mailto:smorin@utm.edu">smorin@utm.edu</a>&gt;</p>
<p> </p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:28:55 +0000rcostello@mcneese.edu79719 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduImagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/04/imagining-migration-knowing-migration-intermedial-perspectives
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 9:13am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:imagining.migration.2020@gmail.com">imagining.migration.2020@gmail.com</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ethnicity-and-national-identity">ethnicity and national identity</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/international-conferences">international conferences</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/postcolonial">postcolonial</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world-literatures-and-indigenous-studies">world literatures and indigenous studies</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April 20, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="paragraph" align="center"><strong>Call for Papers</strong></p>
<p class="paragraph" align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
<p class="paragraph" align="center"><strong>International Conference</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p class="paragraph" align="center"><strong>Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg</strong></p>
<p class="paragraph" align="center"><strong>19–21 March 2020</strong></p>
<p class="paragraph" align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
<p class="paragraph" align="center"><strong><em>Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives</em></strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p class="paragraph">In view of the current socio-political and economic prevalence of global migration movements, modes of representation, medialisation, and interpretation regarding individual and collective migration have been discussed controversially. Whether and how the experience of flight, exile, or everyday migratory realities – often determined by traumatic and violent contexts – can be conceptualised is as contested as the question of what influence such representations have on the formation and distribution of knowledge about migration. Artistic approaches to phenomena of migration – within literary texts, visual and experimental art, or theatre and film – are usually considered within the conceptual parameters of articulation, reconstruction, and critical reflection. Less common, however, are studies that address the interplay between artistic <em>imaginations</em> of migration and specific migration <em>knowledges</em>. </p>
<p class="paragraph">What assumptions are being held about the forms, causes, and effects of global migration? Is knowledge about migrants and migration merely coded or rather produced? How can we grasp the relationship between processes of recording and acts of creating migration knowledges? Which role do the different media and aesthetic practices play in the regime of situated migration knowledges? Despite the breadth of studies from various disciplines within the humanities, the complex interplay between artistic approaches to migration, their specific medial contexts, and their epistemic foundations have not yet been sufficiently explored. It remains unclear how artistic-imaginative portrayals of migrants and migration and the construction of knowledge about migration interact and how imagination relates to the lived realities of migration more generally.</p>
<p class="paragraph">The international and interdisciplinary conference <em>Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives</em> focuses on this gap and thus offers an important contribution to the investigation of the forms and effects of the migration imaginary and its cultural representations. It will feature keynote lectures by <strong>Professor Mieke Bal</strong> and <strong>Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir</strong> and a reading/performance with <strong>Olumide Popoola</strong>. For more info, see our website at <a href="https://imaginingmigration2020.wordpress.com/">https://imaginingmigration2020.wordpress.com/</a>.</p>
<p class="paragraph">We invite contributions from the fields of art history, literary and cultural studies, film, performance and theatre studies, and media studies to address the following or related questions:</p>
<p class="paragraph">• Which kinds of aesthetic, imaginative approaches to migration can be distinguished, and what are their epistemological causes and effects? </p>
<p class="paragraph">• What role does the medium of representation (text, image, film, stage, etc.) play and which possibilities as well as restrictions are linked to these different representational processes? </p>
<p class="paragraph">• What is the significance of language and non-linguistic expression within different medial representations of migration? </p>
<p class="paragraph">• How can we approach the relation between a specific medium and how certain spaces (‘home’, ‘exile’, ‘here’, ‘there’), memories, and experiences (taking refuge, cultural conflict, marginalisation, xenophobia) are imaginatively constructed? Which figurations of migration (‘the refugee’, ‘the asylum seeker’, ‘the migrant worker’) are linked to a specific medium? </p>
<p class="paragraph">• Which procedures, such as intervention, reflection, and subversion are connected to the imagination and artistic representation of migration? </p>
<p class="paragraph">• To what extent do knowledges about migration come to matter within artistic-imaginative forms of representation of migration, and how can we conceptualise the influence these forms of representation exert on processes of knowledge formation? </p>
<p class="paragraph">• Which forms of knowledge (popular vs. scientific, inductive vs. deductive, empirical vs. prejudiced, etc.) can be differentiated with respect to aesthetic and rhetorical engagement with migration? </p>
<p class="paragraph">• How can we theoretically and methodologically approach the relationship between imaginations and knowledges of migration within their respective historical and cultural contexts? How can we address related issues of ideological and socio-cultural categories such as ‘gender’, ‘race’, ‘class’, ‘age’, ‘ability’, and ‘political and religious affiliation’? </p>
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<p class="paragraph">Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short biographical note to <strong><a href="mailto:imagining.migration.2020@gmail.com">imagining.migration.2020@gmail.com</a></strong>. The costs and expenses for invited speakers (travel, accommodation, meals) are expected to be covered entirely.</p>
<p class="paragraph"><strong>Closing date: Saturday 20th April 2019.</strong></p>
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<p class="paragraph">Conference Organisers:</p>
<p class="paragraph">Jennifer Leetsch (JMU Würzburg), Frederike Middelhoff (University of Hamburg), Miriam Wallraven (JMU Würzburg)</p>
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